Posted on 7/2/2007, 1:15:44 PM by kronos77
No commentator likes to sound like a conspiracy nut. But if that is the fate of anyone who tries to challenge the distortions involved in painting Serbia as criminally guilty over Kosovo and the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, then so be it.
Let's go back to the beginning. When Nazi Germany tried to occupy Yugoslavia during World War II, the Croat and Muslim minorities there backed the Nazis in their campaign against the mainly Serbian resistance. Even the Nazis are said to have been impressed by the brutality with which the Croatian forces — the dreaded Ustashi — set out to massacre and cleanse whole villages and even towns of their Serbian populations. Some 1 million Serbs died as a result, many of them in the Croatian death camp at Jasenovac, said to rival some Nazi Holocaust operations in scale and atrocity.
With the war over, Serb revenge seemed inevitable. But the Yugoslav resistance leader, Tito, managed to restrain passions by allowing Serbian domination of the central government while dividing the nation into semi-autonomous regions with mixed ethnic populations. But it was an uneasy compromise, as I saw on the ground in the former Yugoslavia of the '60s and as even we in distant Australia probably realized better than most.
There we saw frequent attacks by recalcitrant Ustashi elements on Yugoslav diplomatic missions and the large Serbian immigrant community. We took it for granted that in any breakup of post-communist Yugoslavia it would be insanity to ask the large Serbian minorities in Croatia and Bosnia to accept rule by their former pro-Nazi Croatian and Muslim oppressors. But insanity prevailed, thanks largely to pressure from Germany, Britain and the United States, all seeking to expand influence into yet another Eastern Europe ex-communist nation.
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Ping!
History will record our unprovoked attacked on a people, in which an entire village in WW2 gave up their lives in exchange for the protection of U.S. pilots that they were hiding from the Nazi's, now, shamefully betrayed by the Clinton administration.
The Serb's are the first people engaged in the front line battle against Al Queda. I believe that Clinton's actions against the Serbian people, the International kangaroo court the Serbian President was subject to, all these actions emboldened Al Queda to attack the USofA on 9-11.
I’d have paid a thousand dollars to watch the spetznaz rescue Milosevic.
lol
Perhaps you missed W being hailed as a hero in Albania for saying that Kosovo should become independent, i.e., let the Muslim invasion continue.
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